· Fish Cough.
· The average speed of a housefly is 4.5 miles per hour.
· Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes.
· The average person makes about 1,140 phone calls a year.
· A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber.
· A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion mathematical calculations.
· A bee has 5 eyes.
· The average American eats about 35,000 cookies in their lifetime.
· Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
·  Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
· There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
· The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
· The shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
· There are more chickens than people in the world.
· Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
· Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
· The average person falls asleep in seven minutes
· The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
· On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
· No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
· "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
· All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
· Almonds are members of the peach family.
· Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
· The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.
· Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."
· Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
· When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
· A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
· A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
· A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
· On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
· It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
· 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
· There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada.
· Actor Tom Hanks is related to Nancy Hanks, who was Abraham Lincoln's mother.
· There are more people alive today, than have EVER died!
· Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.   
· On average, 136 MacDonalds burgers are eaten, anywhere in the world, every second.
· Michael Tolotos, who died at the age of 80, never saw a woman.
· Despite a population of over a billion, China has only about 200 family names.
· John Bellavia has entered over 5000 contests... and never won anything.
· The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
· Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
· More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
· A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
· The original story from "Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights" begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."
· Michael Jordan makes more money from NIKE annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
· The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is "Live Free or Die." These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.
· Chinese Crested dogs can get acne.
· A rainbow can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.
· Maine is the only U.S. state with a dead animal on its license plates. (A red lobster. Lobsters only turn red when boiled.)   
· The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language
· If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
· American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class
· China has more English speakers than the United States.
· The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
· The smell of a skunk can be detected by a human a mile away.
· Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were roommates at Harvard.
· The words "nerd" was coined by Dr. Seuss in his book If I Rann the Zoo.
· People once hunted with yo-yos.
· New York declared its state muffin the Apple Muffin in 1987.
· The only 15-letter word that can be spelled with out repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
· 111,111,111 x 111,111,111=12,345,678,987,654,321.
· The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10-1.
· Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.
· The main library at Indiana University sinks over one inch every year because they forgot to take into account the weight of the books when they built it.
· A typist fingers travel over twelve and a half miles in an average day.
· 2,500 left handers die each year using products designed for right handers.
· The average life span of an umbrella is under two years.
· One googol written out is:
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
· The only word in the English language to contain three back to back double letter combinations is; Bookkeeper.
· If you sleep in a cold room, you are more likely to have a bad dream.
· After eating too much food, you hearing becomes less sharp.
· Jack is the most common name in a fairy tale.
· Less than 3% of Nestle's sales are for chocolate.
· The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change
· One thing that humans do more than anything in their entire life is sleep. Most Americans sleep more than 6-8 hours a day, which is on average around 24 years of ones life!
· During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350 hours removing 8.4 meters of stubble
· Cat's urine glows under a blacklight
· Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.
· A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
·        The 57 on a Heinz bottle represents the number of ingredients in the sauce.
·        A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
·        Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
·        Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
·        Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
·        The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
·        Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist (William Semple).
·        Synesthesia is a rare condition in which the senses are combined. Synesthetes see words, taste colors and shapes, and feel flavors.
The Great Useless Facts
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